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34 quotes by Jeffery Deaver

Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950) is an American mystery/crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later practiced law before embarking on a successful career as a best-selling novelist. He has been awarded the Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association and the Nero Wolfe...
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Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

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Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

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When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

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Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own... →

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To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of... →

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In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

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I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

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For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

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I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.

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If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to... →

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In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

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So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

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Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure... →

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